The Priority Battles
Have you ever worked for someone who said ALL requirements are high priority ? Yeah ! We all have. Customers often […]
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Control – the Illusion
Know any control-freaks?
For many of them, control is an illusion. Paradoxically, by grasping for more control, they often get less.
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Politics or influence?
The ability to influence people is a good skill for a project manager. Isn’t it?
Isn’t it our job as PMs to influence people on the project? To find ways to get our stakeholders onboard?
Could it be that one person’s influencing can be another’s political manipulation?
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Teams? Why not just have a meeting?
Teams. It seems like such an obvious part of project life. Or, is it? Recently, I’ve been noticing some things
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Commitment – Inspiration that Never Fails
Inspiration is important, but we can’t depend on it showing up when needed. It comes and goes, like a ferral
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Money Doesn’t Inspire
Some people in the corporate world still believe that people work for money. But with a growing number of examples
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The Politics of Inspiration and Shame
As a project leader, part of your job is to inspire people to persevere in pursuit of seemingly impossible goals.
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Leveraging Team Member Skills
As an incognito project manager, I found it quite motivating when our team leader acknowledged and made use of background
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Lessons on Lessons Learned
As an incognito project manager, I found it very refreshing to watch and participate in discovering and applying lessons learned
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Lessons in Being Proactive
Once again as an Incognito Project Manager, here are some observations on the Power of being Proactive… Prior to
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Lessons from an Incognito Project Manager
I recently changed hats from project team-builder to project team member. As the e-learning course developer on the team, it
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